08/16/2007
News: Wolfgang Tillmans, Fort Lauderdale, Chris Evans, Tyra Banks
America's Next Top Candidate? Barack Obama to appear on The Tyra Banks Show on September 27.
Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans out with massive new monograph, entitled Manual
Chris Evans well-suited for GQ.
The New York Times scrubs up on the Fort Lauderdale "Flush Naugle" campaign: "In an interview, Mr. Naugle — who described himself as 'extremely' conservative despite being a registered Democrat, like half the city’s registered voters — said he had received 4,000 e-mail messages in recent weeks, mostly supportive. A “climate of permissiveness” has developed in the city, he said, similar to when Fort Lauderdale was a magnet for rowdy spring breakers several decades ago. 'It has become kind of like the days of spring break,' he said, 'when we ended up clamping down because people were jumping off balconies and other things. We are kind of going in that direction with the gay tourism.'"
Jodie Foster opens up to More magazine about the ring she wears and media scrutiny: "My life is my life. I'm not going to change my life for anybody. I don't have any problems with it. I just don't talk about my health, my dad, who I voted for or what I think of the death penalty, because that would be trivializing my life, selling it for a magazine. I don't have any problems with anybody reporting on my life. It's just that I'm not going to bring my family into that."
Lance Bass renting out his Beverly Hills mansion while he hits Broadway to play Corny Colliins in Hairspray.
The odd "Gays for Giuliani" activist ad, which trotted out gay stereotypes to expose Giuliani's supposed liberal leanings, is to actually air in South Carolina.
Labor Day ain't here yet! Elton steps out in white.
New documentary looks at San Francisco's "Stonewall": It began on the first day of 1965, when a festive Mardi Gras costume ball was about to begin in the City at a rented venue on Polk Street called California Hall. The high-profile fundraising gala was to be a sort of coming out party for the city’s underground gay culture, with hopes, for the first time in history, to publicly reveal itself in a thoroughly respectable yet visibly queer and overtly political fashion. ...The police promised not to interfere with what was, in fact, a legal, private event held on private property. But that promise was quickly broken. As eyewitnesses on the film described the incident, no sooner did the party begin, than paddy wagons sealed off the streets around California Hall. SFPD officers armed with cameras and spotlights, as well as guns and batons, formed an intimidating gauntlet through which every partygoer had to pass, to be filmed and photographed upon arrival. The cops then entered the building without cause and without warrants."
Star Jones tells Diane Sawyer why she had gastric bypass surgery: "I didn’t want to die fat. Because that's not happy."
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The Bass estate is currently being rented out by Lance's ex-boyfriend (and best friend), Joe. So that's old news.
However, nice going posting a link to a stalker website. Classy.
Posted by: R.J. | Aug 16, 2007 1:27:45 PM
So now Star will die looking like a human bobble-head doll. Much better.
Posted by: SeattleDan | Aug 16, 2007 1:35:38 PM
So, gay people will be held up for ridicule in South Carolina. Just great. I'm just pleased as punch that all the bubbas I grew up with will sit back in their recliners and have a good laugh at all the silly, sissy fags. That will certainly be a great step forward for gay rights in the Palmetto State. Just what gays in SC need.
Posted by: sam | Aug 16, 2007 1:48:06 PM
Yet Starr Jones absolutely eviscerated Rosie O'Donnell for rightly pointing out that it was wrong for Jones to be telling everyone (while on The View) that she lost the weight through diet and exercise while withholding the fact, and even DENYING the fact, that she had actually had stomach reduction surgery.
Posted by: Zeke | Aug 16, 2007 1:48:17 PM
Meanwhile Jodie Foster watches her pronouns and seals her closet door shut.
Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Aug 16, 2007 1:52:26 PM
Now we know why Lance Bass can't keep a boyfriend.
Posted by: peterparker | Aug 16, 2007 1:55:19 PM
Lance asked Joe to stay at the house while he was away. Apparently they are still really really close.
Posted by: Matt | Aug 16, 2007 2:02:54 PM
I dont need Jodie Foster to come out of the closet. She handles her sexuality like she handles everything about herself. It would be inconsistant if she flew out of the closet now. She no more discusses it than she discusses John Hinckley Jr.
With some celebrities, its ridiculous because all other parts of their lives are thrust upon us. Jodie keeps almost all of it private, so I dont have an issue with her keeping sexuality private if she prefers.
Posted by: Gregoire | Aug 16, 2007 2:25:15 PM
So essentially Gregoire you're equating being gay with a Presidential assassination attempt and the paralyzing for life of Jim Brady????
Actually I trust you're not, but that would be no less stupid than your defense of her cowardice. Wait, you also wrote that somehow it "would be inconsistant if she flew out of the closet now."
I take it back. You ARE stupid. And an Aunt Tom to boot.
Posted by: Leland Frances | Aug 16, 2007 2:41:22 PM
wait..., isn't jodie's closet a panic room?
Posted by: sean | Aug 16, 2007 2:52:26 PM
Leland, dearheart, you need to read up on the history of Jodie Foster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodie_Foster
I agree with Gregoire. She's an intensely private person and has done nothing to harm the gay community. Leave her be.
Posted by: Tread | Aug 16, 2007 3:38:00 PM
Can anybody tell me who makes those sneakers Elton is wearing?
Posted by: soulbrotha | Aug 16, 2007 3:42:51 PM
Jodie is a fine actress but to say it would be inconsistent to be openly gay now is really letting her off the hook. In the SAME interview she says she's for gun control. So why gun control and not the death penalty? She was simply grasping at examples of personal things about herself that we do not know. But for every personal issue she is mum on, she has been candid about dozens of others. She makes references to her children and her childhood and her personal tastes and opinions all the time. By deliberately excluding even an acknowledgment of the fact that she is a lesbian (no one is saying she has to give out truly intimate details), she is saying that THAT personal aspect of her life is somehow embarrassing or like some little private quirk. It's like admitting to being a woman or an actor or having brown eyes. Keeping details of her life private I think anyone can respect. Not simply acknowledging she is a lesbian is something no openly gay person should respect. But at least it allowed for the funny panic room/closet comment!
Posted by: Matthew Rettenmund | Aug 16, 2007 3:45:05 PM
Why is Leland always so damn nasty. More often than not his posts are (while lengthy) fairly informative... but god forbid he shouldnt agree with you... you'll get hit with his unwanted nastiness. So tired of you! Leland, deary... REST YOUR DIZZY CLIT.
Posted by: anon | Aug 16, 2007 4:46:49 PM
I've always gotten the impression that "Leland" is middle aged or older, single, on some sort of disability that keeps him from working/getting outside (advanced HIV?) and his tirades are his way of "connecting" with someone, anyone...so let's pray for him and cut him some slack.
Posted by: c-man | Aug 16, 2007 5:03:37 PM
C-Man, I may not agree with Leland's tactics all the time, but that is just fucking low.
Posted by: Tread | Aug 16, 2007 5:08:11 PM
I have alot of respect for Jodie Foster. I can't imagine being an 18-year old college freshman and having not only having an attempted presidential assassin but also a crazed armed trailing me on campus. Here we are with all these child stars today who've given too much of themselves to the Hollywood machine, but then on the opposite side we have Jodie who, in my opinion, has weathered all of that in an exemplary fashion.
I will never agree that all gays in the public eye need to reveal this intimate detail about themselves, either way. I believe, with all of us, it is a personal choice and we should respect that.
Posted by: Derrick | Aug 16, 2007 9:06:17 PM